The Link River is a short river connecting
Upper Klamath Lake
Upper Klamath Lake (sometimes called Klamath Lake) ( Klamath: ?ews, "lake" ) is a large, shallow freshwater lake east of the Cascade Range in south-central Oregon in the United States. The largest body of fresh water by surface area in Oregon, it ...
to
Lake Ewauna in the city of
Klamath Falls in the
U.S. state
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of
Oregon
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.
[McArthur, p. 580] Draining a basin of , the river begins at the southern end of Klamath Lake and flows a short distance to the
Link River Dam and continues to the head of Lake Ewauna. The "falls" from which Klamath Falls derives its name, and which in reality are best described as
rapids
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Rapids are hydrological features between a ''run'' (a smoothly flowing part of a stream) and a ''cascade' ...
rather than falls, are visible a short distance below the dam, though the water flow is generally insufficient to provide water flow over the rocks. The
Klamath River
The Klamath River ( Karuk: ''Ishkêesh'', Klamath: ''Koke'', Yurok: ''Hehlkeek 'We-Roy'') flows through Oregon and northern California in the United States, emptying into the Pacific Ocean. By average discharge, the Klamath is the second la ...
begins at the narrow southern end of Lake Ewauna and flows from there to the Pacific Ocean.
Before settlers came to the
Klamath Basin, the Link River was known to the local
Klamaths as ''Yulalona,'' meaning "back and forth." At times, strong winds blew the water upstream into Klamath Lake and partly drained the riverbed.
After its founding in 1867, Klamath Falls was originally named Linkville. The name was changed to Klamath Falls in 1892–93.
[McArthur, p. 541]
See also
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List of rivers of Oregon
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*McArthur, Lewis A., and McArthur, Lewis L. (2003)
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''Oregon Geographic Names'', 7th ed. Portland: Oregon Historical Society Press. .
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Rivers of Oregon
Rivers of Klamath County, Oregon
Tributaries of the Klamath River